Prosodic Constraints and Processing Theory

Multi-lingual Prosodic Processing

In our previous research, we have shown that prosody can be used to dramatically improve the performance of the automatic speech translation system VERBMOBIL [9]. The methods to classify prosodic events have been developed on the German sub-corpus of the VERBMOBIL speech database. In this paper we describe how the methods that we developed on the German sub-corpus can be applied to other langua...

Prosodic Constraints on Dynamic Grammatical Analysis

11 Summary Limitations of time and space prevent the detailed examination of how well these rules treat the various empirical cases mentioned earlier, as well as the wider class of examples to be found in the literature on prosodic phrasing. Regardless of how well these particular hypotheses fare in this empirical proving ground, I would like to emphasize that the general perspective in which t...

Prosodic processing and its use in VERBMOBIL

We present the prosody module of the VERBMOBIL speech–to–speech translation system, the world wide first complete system, which successfully uses prosodic information in the linguistic analysis. This is achieved by computing probabilities for clause boundaries, accentuation, and different types of sentence mood for each of the word hypotheses computed by the word recognizer. These probabilities...

Optimality Theory and Arawan Prosodic Systems

Clausal parentheticals, intonational phrasing, and prosodic theory

This paper investigates the intonational phrasing of three types of parenthetical insertions – non-restrictive relative clauses (NRRCs), full sentences, and comment clauses (CCs) – in actual spoken language. It draws on a large set of data from a corpus of spoken British English. Its aim is twofold: first, it evaluates the correctness of previous claims about the intonational phrasing of parent...